Donald Glover is getting too old for this Community sh*t, so he’s focusing his attention elsewhere, specifically on his rap career as Childish Gambino. Glover’s only set to appear in five episodes of the most dramatic NBC sitcom ever, giving him time to record tracks like “Centipede,” a six-minute atmospheric slow burner that ends in a bass-pumping spoken-word rant of an outro. Me, I prefer Gambino’s early material, when he was singing about Jewish mice with his heterosexual life partner in a community college, but this ain’t bad, either.

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I agree with liking his earlier material more however I am glad to see him take leaps in different directions to experiment because to me he is still great and is still Troy/Derrick Comedy/Young Tracey Jordan and so on. Let the boy flap his wings, its not like he is calling himself Jesus or chasing a Kardashian.

Sometimes I wish I liked rap more. I’m down with some of the old school greats, some Public Enemy, Wu Tang, like that, but I just can’t seem to get into anything even a little modern. I’ve never heard a Beastie Boys song I didn’t like, but I’m not sure that even counts.

Is he serious? Or is this “Weird Al” rap? I can’t even bring myself to press play.

He’s…hard to get into if rap isn’t one of your favorite genres. His voice is not made for rapping and his flow still needs a lot of work. The thing is he has a funky high pitched voice and a really harried and overly verbose flow. If he went with a more unconventional rap style, maybe like Del or Dr. Oct, where he wasn’t afraid to rap more slowly then he might be more successful.

Also, was anyone else slightly disappointed by the trajectory of his rap career. Maybe it’s because I am so used his character on Community but I expected more nerd rap from him instead he comes of as trying to hard to be…well HARD (not necessarily gangster). I was expecting a cd like The Last Emp’s Legend of Bigfoot. That cd was so chocked full of nerd culture, hell Secret Wars alone would have qualified. Was anyone else expecting something similar?

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I wasn’t expecting “nerd rap” per se, but I expect someone as smart and funny as him to not use the same tropes that mainstream hip hop has been stuck using for the past 15 years. It’s almost like he doesn’t want to be pigeon-holed as joke rap so he has to put on this tough guy rapper facade, which makes him incredibly boring, IMO.